And momentum was building in Jefferson City to pass legislation allowing the governor to appoint a special prosecutor who could handle key aspects of Gardner’s duties, such as violent crimes.

Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones said earlier this year that Gardner needed to do “soul-searching” about whether she wanted to continue in her post.

Political support for Gardner already was eroding, including among Democrats. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office, while walking away from the Mel Carnahan Courthouse following Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's resignation on Thursday, May 4, 2023, in downtown St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office, embraces his wife Jamie Huq, Chief Misdemeanor Officer in the St. Louis Public Radio Rob Huq, General Felonies Team Leader at the St. Louis Public Radio that taking extensive classes could broach that threshold. Bailey needed to prove that Gardner is willfully neglecting her duties, and legal experts told St. While Gardner proclaimed over the weekend that she had no plans to step aside, the news about her time at SLU, first reported by the Riverfront Times, may have been a key piece of evidence against her. Louis University during a staffing crisis at her office. Gardner’s resignation, announced Thursday, came after a particularly damaging week for the Democratic prosecutor, including a judge allowing most of Bailey’s case to remove her from office to go forward and revelations that she was taking nursing classes at St. “How many defendants will have their constitutional rights violated? How many cases will continue to go unprosecuted?' How many victims will there be between now and June 1?” Bailey said. “Every day she remains puts the city of St.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who has been trying to oust her with a court process called quo warranto, questioned why Gardner was waiting until June 1 to step down, adding that his bid to remove her from office would continue. I took this job to serve the people of the City of St. Gardner said: “The most powerful weapon I have to fight back against these outsiders stealing your voices and your rights is to step back. “I don't know anybody that wouldn't want to move on.” “I think that it is important to her that she left the office intact as far as autonomy and not having state control within the office, but I am very confident that she would like to move on with her life after being a political punching bag for the last five or six years,” Rizzo said.

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